Iraq’s political leaders have failed to reach agreements on nearly every law that the Americans have demanded as benchmarks, despite heavy pressure from Congress, the White House and top military commanders. With only three months until progress reports are due in Washington, the deadlock has reached a point where many Iraqi and American officials now question whether any substantive laws will pass before the end of the year.Our soldiers stay there, fighting and dying, so that these lawmakers can stall and agree to disagree. Enough.
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"Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will." -- Antonio Gramsci
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -- Bertrand Russell
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Things continue to remain bleak in Iraq:
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